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->"After all, G.A. does have a high percentage of crazy students."-->-- '''Uozomi''', on the GA students

Ayanoi High School's G.A. is a class that specializes in the arts. It's at G.A. that a particular five are focused on. Kisaragi Yamaguchi, Miyabi "Professor" Oomichi, Namiko Nozaki, Tomokane and Miki "Nodamiki" Noda. The manga uses its arts class setting well, using this as a chance to teach the audience a few things about color, composition and other things that are usually done at these sort of schools. The {{yonkoma}} manga was written by Creator/SatokoKiyuduki, otherwise known for the artwork of Creator/StingEntertainment's ''VideoGame/DeptHeaven'' games.

Compare with ''Manga/HidamariSketch'', another series focusing on students in high school art programmes serialized in ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara Carat''. While you're in the neighborhood, ''Manga/{{Sketchbook}}'' may also be used to compare and contrast. The series has also been referred to as "''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', but in art class".

An anime adaptation produced by Creator/{{AIC}} aired in the summer of 2009. In North America, the manga is licensed by Creator/YenPress. The seventh and final volume of the manga was released in February 2016 in Japan and October 2016 in North America.

----!!This series provides examples of the following:

* AlienLunch: The dark hotpot in episode 12 of anime. Although the episode concentrated on the one made by the GA-1 girls, apparently things are worse for your traditional Art Club Hazing...* AlwaysInClassOne: {{Enforced}} by the very premise. The Art Design course is clustered in class A (class B is apparently for music courses).* ArtEvolution: The first three chapters were drawn for the later closed magazine ''Comic Gyutto!''. It was later picked up by ''Manga Time Kirara Carat''. The break was less than a year but the change in drawing style between is noticeable. Comparing the covers of volumes 3 and 4 shows the character's eyes have gradually become smaller and their heads have become narrower as well.* ArtImitatesArt: On a trip to a museum, two of the more famous works are referenced. Noda does "[[ThinkerPose The Thinker]]", and Professor and Kisaragi duet "[[PietaPlagiarism La Pieta]]".* BlandNameProduct: When Noda wanted to refer to the marks of Louis Vuitton and Cartier in Episode 1, it was blurred over.* BlankWhiteEyes: Nodamiki has them ''by default''.* BookDumb: There's Kisaragi, but then there was one strip that the college-prep stream student Uozomi observed GA's non-art curriculum is far less rigourous than his, indirectly implying ''all'' students in GA (at least Awara) are this.* TheCameo: Kuro, of ''Manga/ShoulderACoffinKuro'', one of Kiyuduki's other works, can be seen checking out the school and walking off in the background in episode two.* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:** Noda, who's clearly a few crayons short of a box.** Kisaragi tends to live in outer space too, if not ''more''. ** And Awara. Actually all students in the GA class are more or less like this to a degree. See how often Uozomi and Homura snark them...* ClubStub: The Art Club and its many predecessors. Due to [[spoiler:a mishap when the CloudCuckooLander president promoted the club the previous year]], the club now only has three members. {{Downplayed}} in that while the club was eventually saved by merging with Campus Environment Club, and the other club only have ''one'' member--that other club can't be disbanded because it provided volunteers to clean the school campus, and Sasamoto-sensei {{exploited}} this to use it as a "shell" to acquire other clubs so that she can have a [[MustHaveNicotine smoking room]].* ColorCodedCharacters:** The commonly used version:-->'''[[color:yellow:Yellow]]''': Kisaragi-->'''[[color:orange:Orange]]''': Nodamiki-->'''[[color:red:Red]]''': Tomokane-->'''[[color:green:Green]]''': Namiko-->'''[[color:black:Black]]''': Professor** Although another combination, based on the {{sentai}} discussed below, is also commonly seen:-->'''[[color:magenta:Magenta]]''': Noda-->'''[[color:cyan:Cyan]]''': Kisaragi-->'''[[color:red:Red]]''': Tomokane-->'''[[color:yellow:Yellow]]''': Namiko-->'''[[color:black:Black]]''': Professor* CompanionCube: The Fine Arts Club's mannequin, Sanae. Also, Professor seems fond of the black poster paint that Noda gave a personality to. Though she likes anything black.* CuteKitten: Tomokane's misreading of 素描 (''sobyou'', rough sketch) into 素猫 (''Suneko'', plain cat) leads to Kisaragi filling her sketchbook with [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/GA-Suneko.png a certain kitten]]. This kitten would go on to become the series' mascot.* DeathIsASadThing: The [[TearJerker baby chick chapter]].* DreamWithinADream: Kisaragi's continued trips into a surreal art world after a lecture on surrealism. Highlights include Noda appearing as a mermaid and finding her way back to her classroom (sort of) by the Wile E. Coyote method of passageway creation.* EarlyBirdCameo:** Awara and Tomokane's brother is seen among the FacelessMasses in the first scene of the first episode. Homura also appears to sliding down a hill.** Also the whole Art Club cast appears in episode 2, which is 1 episode before their proper introduction.* EdutainmentShow: All those explanations about graphic techniques make the series comes pretty close at times.* ElevatorSchool: Ayanoi Gakuen is a more realistic example. It has a junior high, a high school and technological university in adjacent campuses, and they share a lot of common facilities -- the main characters often go to the university campus to have computer graphics classes and sometimes even for ''vending machines''. It's also worth noting that because of the university's background, the high school has a relatively large technical/vocational division, on top of general ed and arts divisions -- and it's not an ElaborateUniversityHigh at all, as Kiyuduki was merely recalling her high school, [[http://www.fukui-ut-fukui-h.ed.jp/ Fukui Senior High School of the Fukui University of Technology]].[[note]]Though the anime staff took references from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshibi_High_School_of_Art_and_Design Joshibi HS of Art and Design]] in Tokyo.[[/note]]* EvolvingCredits: The ending, besides the episodic variations depending on who's singing, has steadily changed over the course of the series with the girls getting older and their activities changing.* ExcitedKidsShowHost: One of the recurring elements of ''GA'' is ''Let's Draw and Play!'', a kids' show starring "Kisaragi-onee-chan" as the lovable host and a "Suneko" hand puppet friend (voiced and controlled by Noda). Kisaragi is in love with this idea.* {{Expy}}: Nietzsche from ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'', art directed by Kiyudzuki-sensei, is based on Noda; Milanor has shades of the younger Tomokane, and in the anime, she was given [[Creator/MiyukiSawashiro his voice actress]]. As the manga continued after ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'' was released, Kiyudzuki went on to incorporate some of its characters back into ''GA;'' Tono-sensei has a strong resemblance to Gulcasa, and Same-chan-sensei is a dead ringer for Flone.* TheFaceless: The viewer/reader never gets to see the face of Nodamiki's older sister. * FootnoteFever: This work's [[EdutainmentShow art edutainment]] tendencies plus the heavy use of puns means every manga volume by Creator/YenPress has at least 4 pages of translator's notes.* GagSeries: This, with the bulk of artistic terms, caused Creator/YenPress' translation of the first manga volume to have [[FootnoteFever 5 pages of translator's notes]].* {{Hammerspace}}: While having a comb and a sewing set in her blazer is not surprising, but when Professor pulled out a bag of dye fixative from her blazer...-->'''Tomokane''': Are you always prepared for a trip or something?-->'''Professor''': *Pulls out an oral care set* * HardWorkHardlyWorks: Discussed. Kisaragi is probably the most hard-working in her group, but she lacks Masa's and Noda's natural talent, and angsts about the fact that her work didn't get selected for a museum display.-->'''Professor''': As far as I know, Kisaragi-dono spent the most time creating her work.-->'''Namiko''': She's the complete opposite of Noda. Noda's got talent, but she's [[CloudCuckooLander moody]].-->'''Professor''': You (Kisaragi) are not envious of other people's success. When you did your best but weren't selected, you were frustrated with yourself.-->'''[[TheFreddy Yoshikawa]]''': I see. Yamaguchi-san... ''really loves painting''.* ImagineSpot: Kisaragi, frequently.* ImplausibleHairColor: Nodamiki and Namiko are known in-universe to have pink and light brown hair, respectively; they've submitted their kids' photos to show that they do not dye their hair.* ImprobableChopsticksSkill: Tomokane is able to catch a fly with a pair of chopsticks. Eating rice by just holding them in the middle is an other matter however...* LemonyNarrator: The narrator complained about the main ensemble breaking color mood of the cast, so they shout back at the narrator.* LoopholeAbuse: In one scene, Tomokane and Noda have prepared a game to play during lunch: Everyone blindly selects a slip of paper, and must spend lunch obeying the rule selected, e.g. "Exchange your favorite dish with someone else", or "Don't use sauce". Tomokane's was "Don't use chopsticks", so she decides to interpret "hashi" as "the ends" instead of "chopsticks", based on a different kanji. * LoveBubbles: Appearing during a strangely intimate moment between Noda and Kisaragi. * MagicFeather: A pencil Kisaragi got from an old lady at the stationery store turns out to be not special in the slightest. She was conned into buying it to get rid of the stock.* MediumAwareness: When the GA-1 students were talking about typography, one strips actually have the characters discuss the sound effect typeface ''on that strip''. These moments are generally restricted to the bonus strips between chapters.* MediumBlending: The OVA ending recreates several pieces of art from the series in live action, and ends with a claymation shot of the main five.* MythologyGag: The anime opening include scenes (such as the badminton game) that were pretty much hot off the press.* NonUniformUniform: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/GA-OP-Last.jpg The last scene of the OP]] shows them all.* NotNamedInOpeningCredits: Strange anime example. Tomokane's brother had a single line in an episode before he was introduced, and in the ending credits that was only listed as "Grade 11 Student -- [[Creator/MiyukiSawashiro M.S.]]" * NotSoAboveItAll: Namiko is usually the most reality-bound of the main five. Some of her design ideas however...-->'''Namiko''': I heard that invention-type stuff was popular. *Presenting a writing desk with a top that can flip into an built-in garbage bin*-->'''Sotoma-sensei''': If you're gonna file a patent, go to the Tokyo Approval Office instead of the faculty room.* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Most of the Art Club, Same-chan-sensei, and Tono-sensei, especially in the manga.* PuniPlush: WordOfGod said this is in ''puni''-{{moe}}, after all.* RearrangeTheSong: "Coloring Palettes", the ending theme, has five versions, one for each of the girls. Because the lyrics and music genre change to match their personality, they double as an ImageSong for each character.* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The Sunekos and, to a certain extent, the Lord Chickens.* RunningGag: Every episode begins with the appearance of the word "hajimaru" (はじまる - "it's starting") in one way or the other. * SchoolgirlSeries: The series includes mainly focuses on the group of five girls (Tomokane, Namiko, Noda, Oomichi, and Kisaragi).* SelfDeprecation: In one of the bonus strips in volume 3, Noda and Tomokane are seen looking at GA volume 1 and saying they don't feel like reading it because they don't like the art.* {{Sentai}}: Irodorunger! Tomokane is Red, Namiko is Yellow, Noda is Magenta, Kisaragi is Cyan and Professor is Monochrome. More Sentai elements are added in episode nine, including a full [[InTheNameOfTheMoon roll call]] and a makeshift HumongousMecha.* ShipperOnDeck: The GA as a whole likes to assume that Usami-sensei and Sotoma-sensei are a couple, even insisting that he go look after her when he had to temporarily fill in for her class due to her being sick.* ShoutOut:** For GA-1's home appliance design assignment, one of Tomokane's designs is a rather blatant ShoutOut to ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}''.** [[Creator/MarilynMonroe Pooh Pooh]] [[Film/SomeLikeItHot Be Doo]].** Masa and Kisaragi have cosplayed as [[VideoGame/YggdraUnion young Roswell and Rosary]] in one of the manga's color explanations.* SiblingRivalry: Tomokane can't hide her disdain towards her older brother due to unfulfilled SiblingRivalry, which boils down to... * SiblingYinYang: While the case of {{Bokukko}} versus NonActionGuy didn't seem too out of ordinary, their parents thought her older brother was [[IllBoy too ill]] for her to make a physical response--as a result, while she kept being pwned at home, she gets more gratification outdoors. Like being a {{delinquent}}.* SickEpisode: The last episode of the anime, when Namiko was sick. She just has the uncanny ability to predict exactly what's going to happen...* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Kisaragi at first tells Noda to stop narrating a conversation between two people she sees out the window. Then Professor, normally one of the serious ones, is doing the ''exact same thing''. However, given that it's a pair of chickens, hints at various points indicate that [[SpeaksFluentAnimal Professor actually ''does'' know what they're saying]].* StorybookEpisode: After a fashion. One episode features the Fine Arts Club creating a storybook that features a protagonist which looks oddly like Kisaragi, who's quickly joined by an adventuring party resembling the other four.* SuperDeformed: The ending. Note that this is for a series that's already in PuniPlush territory. Although the girls are not as much super deformed, but rather depicted as really young. * TalkingWithSigns:** A variation is used by Noda. She turns her sketchbook into sign language for ''other people'', holding it over them like a SpeechBubble.** Another example was when Satoma-sensei was reprimanded for his reprimanding Tomokane's and Namiko's work, Tomokane and Namiko discreetly wrote their response (to the effect of "You'll regret it!!") on the top of their sketchbooks and put them over their heads. Of course, Tomokane got the kanji wrong.* TerribleArtist: Homura, especially evident in the StorybookEpisode discussed above. [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/GA-Homura-witch.jpg Or maybe an example now.]]* TooLongDidntDub:** Yen Press' translation has the tendency to do this, including ''the title''. The Japanese side already made a fully acceptable English title ''GA: Art Department Art Design Class''; but ''Geijutsuka'' is kept untranslated in the English release. While it makes the work easier to search for, it doesn't really roll off the tongue.** In volumes 1-5 Yen Press added notes in between panels to translate signs, covers, written words, and other miscellaneous text that's part of the art instead of the print. Unfortunately they dropped this practice in volume 6.* TwelveEpisodeAnime: Followed up by an OVA in the DVD-releases.* TwoTeacherSchool: Averted. GA-1 has homeroom Satoma and co-homeroom Usami, and GA-3 has Sasamoto as their homeroom--who also supervises the Art Club. GA-2's homeroom Morita also shown up in one scene and so have the principal and the school nurse.* UncannyFamilyResemblance: The Tomokane siblings not only look alike -- [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TheTomokanes.jpg Nodamiki one said the older Tomokane as a "bleached Tomokane-kun" in episode 12]] -- but both were voiced by Creator/MiyukiSawashiro, hence upgrading from StrongFamilyResemblance to this.* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: {{Lampshade}}d. The girls discussed why WesternAnimation have an AmazingTechnicolorPopulation while {{anime}} would rather have this -- and to break the FourthWall, the shot showed their hair colours in a more vivid saturation than usual: Kisaragi is dark brown, Professor is black, Tomokane is green, Noda is pink, and Namiko is dirty yellow. By the way, Awara is reddish brown, Mizubuchi is black, Uozomi is blueish black, and Homura is blond. Also, Yoshikawa is blond and Mitsui is blue.